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Updated: June 12, 2025
In that afterglow between men and women which comes when the storms of life have been lived through, Lane might be found a sufficient lover.... As they entered the narrow path that led through the beechwood, Lane stepped aside to allow Vickers to precede him. The afternoon sun falling on the glossy new leaves made a pleasant light.
During the summer evenings a ramble to "Beechwood" had been a favourite recreation with Robert and I, and thither we took our way the last evening we expected to spend together at Fulton.
Here a patch of wood, there a patch of heath, but its general aspect bare and unfruitful. The commanding outline of Beechwood Forest was not visible for the weather. Time now, let us suppose, half-past ten, with a full muster of horsemen and a fog making unwonted dulness of the scene the old sign-pole being the most conspicuous object of the whole. Hark! what a clamour there is about it.
I, Philippa, Duchess of Hazlewood on this your wedding-day, reveal to you the first stain on the name of Arleigh unvail the first blot on one of the noblest escutcheons in the land. You have married not only a low-born girl, but the daughter of a felon a felon's daughter is mistress of proud Beechwood!
"We will not open that subject again," said the mother, uneasily. "I thought we had all made up our minds that little Longfield was a thousand times pleasanter than Beechwood, grand as it is. But John thinks he never can do enough for his people at Enderley." "Not that alone, love. Other reasons combined.
Victoria Drew sat on the lowest step leading into the evergreen cabin. This was the name she preferred to call it. Inside Kara lay asleep. There was no one else at the camp in Beechwood Forest at this moment. The other girls and the Troop Captain had departed for a day's hike, not to return until late afternoon. Nevertheless Tory and Kara had not been alone.
"Up to a point," he said: "Auntie June took me to church one Sunday." "To church? Oh!" "She wanted to see how it would affect me." "And did it?" "Yes. I came over all funny, so she took me home again very quick. I wasn't sick after all. I went to bed and had hot brandy and water, and read The Boys of Beechwood. It was scrumptious." His mother bit her lip. "When was that?"
At his wonted hour he rode away, sighingly contrasting pleasant Beechwood with dreary and solitary Luxmore. After his departure we did not again close round the fire. Maud vanished; the younger boys also; Guy settled himself on his sofa, having first taken the pains to limp across the room and fetch the Flora, which Edwin had carefully stowed away in the book-case.
Past the spruces the lane dipped down into a sunny little open where a log bridge spanned a brook; and then came the glory of a sunlit beechwood where the air was like transparent golden wine, and the leaves fresh and green, and the wood floor a mosaic of tremulous sunshine.
So, and with many such prayers she struggled against the dominion of evil, kneeling meekly in the leafy stillness of that deep beechwood, where no human eye beheld her devotions.
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